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T.a.C- thedude8125
ShadowWarriorfs- ShadowWarriorfs​

tac's vote, cigmas vote, and shads vote simply do not count. CK and I tied. the champ is a three way.

TaC voted on my battle and he was not signed in. According to the rules a champ must vote on at least three matches. He did not. Thus his vote don't count and I win even if Cigma's and Shad's counted.

Shadow, what is it that you have against me ?

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It's been a good trip you all. Unless this issue is fixed, and me in the champ match at a record of 11-3 I will simply just focus all my writings on a book I'm working on and never step foot again around these parts. Ya, I know, cool story bro. Yall just lost a great talent and name for this league.

I Didn't want to no/show so here something quick, I'll be at it 100 % next week.

Company's bust, mortgage isn’t paid eviction is due
Mom's with the postman, cause she was pissed off at you
Left alone with the child, bags packed heading for town
Urgent need of an excuse, to stop his head getting down

"Damn, what the fuck am i goona tell this kid..."

Get your coat son, pack away your book to read
Looking at what I have left, everything she took I need..
"Come’on kev, time for a father son trip on the train"
"Fuck sake" the strap on my bag jus ripped again
Ten past twelve stepping into the London underground
Rain pours, son clung to my leg from that thunderous sound
No fun is around, multi aged prostitutes placed on steps
Ashamed to hold my son here, wished to erase n forget
Finding a doorway, gently laying out kev's sleeping bag
"Why are we here?" Didn't want to sleep cause he's sad
"Son were out camping"... I feel we been lost for weeks
Where are we? only heroin needles lay across the streets
No-one'll stop to speak, surrounded by long bearded men
Only just got confidence, now sons filled with fears again
Like "nights approaching" my "son starts to gently drift off"
Realizing the sun'll be up soon, staring at my wrist watch...

*looking around the next morning*

Awake all night, quietly watching the sun slowly rise
Hearing screaming in the distance, man i know them cry's
Running over to see a young kid rolling around in pain
Grabbing hold of his stomach, making that sound again
Removing his hand, spotting blood seeping from wounds
Stripped of his clothes, jaw broke isn’t speaking too soon
Girlfriend explains he was attacked for his shoe's n coat
She was once attacked by homeless kids, n the bruises spoke
Sirens run Grab my son's arm an swiftly fled the scene
Confusion strikes, don’t know where i am, where my head has been
In thirty years id never before seen such life on the streets
.....Reminiscing of times about the wife, when we'd meet
Walking along the street, spotting a tiny one star hostel
What did we have to lose? already so far we'd lost all
Setting my son down on a mattress clearly infested with fleas
Tears dropping down my eye' "this really the best it can be"?
Never forget my night on the streets, broken jaws for some
The sad thing is, I can’t help but fear we have more to come
Staring down at Kevin, excited about tomorrows "camping trip"
One day he'll find I’m lying... just hope he's understanding it

Everything has become meaningless, my cell shallow & pale
Longing to escape this reality, this frail bodied jail..
Eaten by my frustration as all my efforts fall short
Longing to reside on the outside, the old man retorts
Time is becoming distant, maybe its time to realise
That the world outside will never be graced by my eyes
Every once in a while I glance a sight of my jailer
An old man rotting with hate, each time looking paler
& it hurts inside, the mere fact I have to hide..
Couldnt there be a way for us both to surely coinside
The darkness looms, soon to consume my shallow room
Each step taken, becoming one step closer to my doom
My existance is fadeing, my extierer walls are flaking
My life has become a race in which old age is over taking
I remain nothing but dorment, suffering bitter torment
Sitting around waiting inside, softly choosing my moment
Maybe in the next life ill once again rule, feel my strife
Maybe if i concerntrate this old fool may stick in the knife
Set me free, I long to run amougst gods creation with glee
& the world to look at this rotting demon & instead see me
All this wasted energy I keep but outside hes so weak..
When he brings my memories forward all the cunt does is weep
Cant he see I still reside inside, I never went away
But when the moment comes knocking, I cant go out to play
Instead I exist, stay & manifest deep in the mind
Going over & over all the motionless that exists inside
Today i saw the reflection, the mirrored deception
The prisoner deep within does not bare such complextion
& yet gets judged so, im going insane, im all alone
Prone to think for myself becoming an entity going solo
I bare no strings to pull, no longer the puppet master
No matter how hard I try this vessel never gets faster..
My pleas for release rebound upon a deaf ear..
Ignored eternaly it seems, filling him up with fear
But for what reason? Before I was trapped I came in handy
I only wish to run around freely & maybe eat some candy
Hear my melody, set me loose & make your life well again
I know im the child within & that im ages worse enemy
Your making a huge mistake, I cant & wont ever be tamed
For all your childish acts, your too old for me to blame
You will be labeled insane & like me will live trapped
& purged into an existance in which you never come back
But dont worry about me old man, im forever waiting
My 2nd wind is near & in that theres no mistaking..
Time is running out, soon between us there will be nothin
& ill have my revenge when we both meet in the coffin.

Riot:
I liked this kind of story, and you do it well. The minimilistic yet effective discription is good, you use few words to decribe things but every line helps paint a picture in the readers mind. The story itself was solid as well which is obviesly the most important thing.

Kuja:
I wasn't feeling this. The flow and rhyming wa sspot on, but the story wasn't presented well.

"I only wish to run around freely & maybe eat some candy
Hear my melody, set me loose & make your life well again
I know im the child within & that im ages worse enemy
Your making a huge mistake, I cant & wont ever be tamed
For all your childish acts, your too old for me to blame
You will be labeled insane & like me will live trapped
& purged into an existance in which you never come back
But dont worry about me old man, im forever waiting
My 2nd wind is near & in that theres no mistaking..
Time is running out, soon between us there will be nothin
& ill have my revenge when we both meet in the coffin."

Around there it got a lot better, if it was like this for the whole thing you might have won, but I felt that for most of the verse you didn't play to the child part of the story enough.

MK - great flow and structure. the pace and cadence of the opening lines had me enjoying this right away. you had some really descriptive lines too that made me think..

"..Get your coat son, pack away your book to read
Looking at what I have left, everything she took I need.."

great 2 bars there. set the pace..

Kuja - really great work here as well! great flow and vocab to your story, however on the technical side, things were a tad lacking. some internal rhymes and a few multies would have been an immense addition to your story. great work here though..

This battle was good but imho I felt Riot struck a tad harder which imo, allowed him to tell a better story overall..

Riot,
Very nice verse .easy to read from start to finish
Smooth flow all the way through, I like the story. All the lines were clear and strong.
The imagery was very clear. And powerful.
Story line followed through. I enjoy this piece very much. Nice job

Kuja

Lovely piece very well written, I enjoyed reading it from start to finish, the imagery was powerful
It drew me in and took me for the stories ride.
The rhymes are smooth, and it all flowed nicely.
None of it seemed forced or rushed. I read this one more than once, NOT because I didn’t understand, but simply because I enjoyed it.
Nice work

This is the toughest one I have had to vote for, there is normally a clear stand out for me that makes it an easy decision but here I will be splitting hairs, both flow, story, rhymes. Were very equal,
So it comes down to personal preference sooooooo close wish I didn’t have to choose.

Roit- I like the set up and the tone of the story, Created with some strong lines. Flow was great and pacing was good. I felt though, that the story was rushed and underdeveloped a little bit. Somewhat confusing, but I did get it the first read however. There was some story elements that could have been padded in there to make this complete I strongly felt. Otherwise, well written on the real

Kuja- impressive dude. I like the thoughts of this guys prison angle. Each line seriously moved well and you were not stuck saying the same things over and over, each line moved with good dramatic pacing and I was enjoying this a lot the first time through.

Also the flow was hot man.

this is a close one, but if you look at kujas verse, you can see he developed in the right places and finished his verse up

Riot:
Dude your writing is so nice and i know you where just thrown into this match and couldn't fully prepare for it but i still go with originality.. And this was will smiths movie pursuit of happyness all the way.. so you delivered the story well and it had the emotion in there but really the whole re-telling a movie thing i just couldn't look past it.. Nice drop like i said your writing is viscous..

kuja:
Awesome that killer inner child just waiting to break out and fuck shit up.. I think you captured this perfectly with high quality description and a lot of strong emotion.. I really got into this character of a vengeful/trapped youth inside of you.. Really this was well written and portrayed top notch skill..

vote = kuja

It was more original plus he delved into his character deeper.. good luck guys

wow.. next time i won't read the votes before hand, almost got swayed there for a minute
Kuja- The RSTL is really getting better, with great writer's like you and many other's..(not so many more tbh) your flow, was vicious, story line original, satisfying and entertaining. great concept play, where your describing the inner-child within, fantastic, metaphor's and poetic tones as well.

"For all your childish acts, your too old for me to blame
You will be labeled insane & like me will live trapped
& purged into an existance in which you never come back
But dont worry about me old man, im forever waiting
My 2nd wind is near & in that theres no mistaking.."
Murder= Holy fuck bro, hol-y fuck, you beasted the topic, flow was on point, a few area's got a bit repetitive with your word choice, but the part that stuck out most was the concept of the story, almost got persuaded by C's comment "And this was will smiths movie pursuit of happiness all the way.. " but, regardless, how many time's we gonna tell stories and they won't bear similar resemblances @ one point or another.
i expected to hear your typical, abcdef, adcbf, type rhyme delivery, as usual, but it seemed you took more attention on the freshness of the schemes, and the rhythm was strong.

Kuja, well performance, sorry... but RIOT was the clear winner here..
vote=riot"Awake all night, quietly watching the sun slowly rise
Hearing screaming in the distance, man i know them cry's
Running over to see a young kid rolling around in pain
Grabbing hold of his stomach, making that sound again
Removing his hand, spotting blood seeping from wounds
Stripped of his clothes, jaw broke isn’t speaking too soon
Girlfriend explains he was attacked for his shoe's n coat
She was once attacked by homeless kids, n the bruises spoke"​

Riot - For a quick key, this was written very well. I thought the flow and rhymes were solid but i really enjoyed the progression of the story. It didn't seem rush at all. I loved how you used this topic. Great story man...not your best from wording standpoint but still a solid drop.

Fave Line -
"Girlfriend explains he was attacked for his shoe's n coat
She was once attacked by homeless kids, n the bruises spoke
Sirens run Grab my son's arm an swiftly fled the scene
Confusion strikes, don’t know where i am, where my head has been"

Kuja - The story was nice. It wasn't as original as i had hoped but still nice. The imagery was good and it read smoothly despite you spelling errors. The story was good to read but it wasn't really my thing. I get the whole inner demon thing but i wanted something a bit more or some kind of twist. Still a good read..

fave line -
"& it hurts inside, the mere fact I have to hide..
Couldnt there be a way for us both to surely coinside
The darkness looms, soon to consume my shallow room
Each step taken, becoming one step closer to my doom"

Overall a cool matchup. Both writer did well here but i have to give this to Riot. His story was just more entertaining to me...Good work guys

Riot, as far as lyrical narration of a story it was fundamentally sound. Nothing too special about the verse, although it did have flashes of emotion and decent imagery. I like how you able to capture the father and what he was going through having to live like that raising his son. So despite not being extremely, polished you were still able to do that, props.

Now Kuja took a different approach. Whereas Riot was story telling, Kuja was sort of doing topical commentary.

With this type of format, you really have to be on point and not mince words because then its obvious where people just fill in lines because they don't really say anything. This didn't happen here. Although there was fat, Kuja did enough for me, to make you ponder about how we battle our inner child and what a toll it takes on life. It was sort of a twist but not really because you could see where it was going, but still having the Inner Child being a prisoner to the Old man was creative, thinking about his escape or revenge and with the closing... good job tying it together.

I might have called Riot's setting with the long bearded homeless men and the heroin needle streets stereotypical if his main character wasn't a homeless man with a son. He saved himself with that.

Kuja's story didn't really provoke any emotional response from me, and I'd expect a story on that topic to either try and make me sad or try to make me scared. To me it didn't seem to be a horror story or a tragedy, more of a "Here's what's going on, doesn't it suck?"